R. Perry: -"Our process works, and I don't see anything out there that would merit calling for a moratorium on the Texas death penalty... It's fair and appropriate, and we will continue with it."
Two hundred and five Mr. Perry
THE COMRADES
INTRODUCTION
WHAT YOU CAN DO !
Reginald Blanton's last words
Yes I do. I know ya'lls pain, believe me I shed plenty of tears behind Carlos. Carlos was my friend. I didn't murder him. This what is happening right now is an injustice. This doesn't solve anything. This will not bring back Carlos. Ya'll fought real hard here to prove my innocence. This is only the beginning. I love each and everyone dearly. Dre My queen. I love you. Yaws, Junie I love yall. Stay strong, continue to fight. They are fixing to pump my veins with a lethal drug the American Veterinary Association won't even allow to be used on dogs. I say I am worse off than a dog. They want to kill me for this; I am not the man that did this. Fight on. I will see ya'll again. That's all I can say
Façade Revealed
NOTHING has changed—
I can still hear
Soulful groans, mothers’ cries,
As their children, ripped away from them,
Are taken for a “lil ride.”
Lynchings continue…
Disguised and revolutionized under a guise
Of justice, but look into Their eyes
And you’ll see
Smiling faces saying “Burn ‘em alive!”
Only now
And “burning” is suffocation,
And the “cross” is made of steel;
Horizontally laid, surrounded by glass
So They can congregate, and still watch
A color’d be killed.
It’s a drawn out process—
Approximately 6 years is what it takes;
For this type of death comes extremely slowly.
They drain the taxpayers dry,
While they say the appeal process is owed to me.
They have to make it look good!
They don’t want society to start having thoughts
That They’re snatching Us off the streets,
Doing to Us what was done to the Arawaks.
So what do we have?
Millions of dollars
Being drained from You for political gain.
Your money that’s supposed to be used for our appeals
Is being rechanelled to the State Treasury’s veins.*
Let’s go back a lil ways
To the time of “old” slavery.
Any enslaved person that resisted
Was made an example
To their families and all other potential resistors
When dismembered, with their body parts trampled.
The shock value of such a scene was profound—
Instant subjugation by the mere sight.
And they’re still being barbaric to subjugate a class
By this revolutionized dismembering of lives.
Comparing the past to the present—
Death Row inmates’ families
Are afflicted by the same psychological warfare.
And by it, these families are thrown
Into a state of bewilderment;
An oppressive tool to suppress the fight they have left.
So, the fight is taken out of the families,
While their children are taken for the slaughter,
And used for the accumulation of money.
While the government pockets those tax-payed dollars.
As our society’s morale evolved,
So did the system’s, superficially
So that Their means of profit won’t be taken away.
They’ve sugar- coated what’s ordinarily repulsive.
Executions and Lynchings, it’s all the same.
By Reginald “Omari Huduma” Blanton innocent executed by the state of Texas
We are a group of prisoners that seek to unite the death row community to bring about change for everyone caged here on Texas Death Row. Due to the ever worsening deplorable environment of Texas Death Row we have no choice but to push forward and initiate change in the conditions.
Through DRIVE we have organized a group of passionate prisoner activists who have put aside all minor barriers of ethnicity, creed, color and beliefs, to focus on the injustices forced upon us by this system. By means of inner-resistance, organizing, outer petitions drives, protests and direct actions, we will solidify our stance and remain relentless in the fight against oppression!
Until Humanitarian conditions are implemented and Freedom and true Justice is achieved, DRIVE will continue to be an uncompromising force in the Struggle!
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STARVIN' FOR JUSTICE
Nov 27 Death row's condemned prisoners speak mostly of
Nov 27 The Case of Bobby Woods
Nov 24 Organizing the fight against executions
Nov 20 Texas man executed after clemency denied
Nov 20 Perry Rejects Clemency for Robert Lee Thompson
Nov 19 Texas Parole Board Urges Clemency For Death Row
Nov 19 Texas executes inmate who claimed time on death
Nov 19 Grits for Breakfast: ACLU: CCA ignored evidence of
fals confession in capital case
Nov 18 Texas Death Row Inmate Gets Last Minute Reprieve
Nov 18 Texas death row inmate wins new punishment
Nov 17 Ohio Is First to Change to One Drug in Executions
Nov 16 Texans too quiet about their state’s broken justice
Nov 16 Texas death row man claims inmates' numbered days
Nov 16 Grits for Breakfast -TDCJ on recording death row
Nov 16 If You Hire an Attorney, You Won't be Sentenced to
Nov 16 Death sentences have dropped sharply after life
without parole became possible -in Texas-
Nov 16 Column - Dave Atwood: Execution system unjust in
Nov 12 Court weighs Texas death row inmate's sanity claim
Nov 11 Cuban man executed for Houston slaying
Nov 09 Texas resists family's effort to clear executed man's
Nov 08 Black Homophobia by Rob Will
Nov 06 Ms. Smith's Apologists by Rob Will
Nov 05 US lawmaker pushes death penalty appeals overhaul
Nov 04 Reg was Executed Yesterday by Rob Will
Nov 04 The Execution of a Potentially Innocent Man Less
Nov 03 The Dark Lord Cheney: Destroyer of the Blues
(written 8-30-09) by Rob Will
Nov 03 Juan Melendez - Innocent, Exonerated Former Death
Row Prisoner to Tour Texas Nov. 9-18
Nov 03 Death Man Talking BBC Interview with John
Thompson exonerated after 14 years on Louisiana’s
Death Row
Nov 02 Texas March Spotlights Executions by Laura Brady
Nov 02 3 Death Row Inmates lose at Supreme Court
Nov 01 A cleregyman's transsgration and a prisoner's
treachery (writen 9-26-09) and Steve Moody poem
by Robert Will
Nov 01 Germany Pases a Resolution Demanding a New Trial
Oct 29 Biblical Punishment for Khristian Oliver. Contact Board
of Pardons & Parols and urge clemency for Khristian
Oct 29 Exonerated inmates protest Texas death penalty
Oct 28 Activists call for execution freeze. Protestors present
death penalty moratorium petition to governor
Oct 27 Protest Texas plan to execute Reg Blanton! Tusday,
October 27th,5.30 PM, Texas State Capitol
Oct 27 Reg Blanton's case on Democracy Now! Guests
included Reg’s brother & Austin CEDP member Carter
Pagel
Oct 25 Is Texas Going to Execute an Innocent man? Reggie
Blanton May be put to death in Texas Tues Oct 27th
Oct 23 Abolish the death penalty today! Mark Clements on
Reg Blanton's case
Oct 23 Solidarity Call for Reg by Rob Will
Oct 23 Death Row Inmates in Texas Tell Their Stories in
Oct 23 New Message from Texas Moratorium Network
Oct 22 Cognitive Capability and the Death Penalty
(written 28-08-09) by Rob Will
Oct 22 March against the death penalty
Oct 22 Ending death penalty could save US millions: study
Oct 21 Kenneth Mosley looses Supreme Court appeal
Oct 20 Medusa Lives!, The Most Perfidious Ms. Smith Strikes
Again & Medusa's Omen by Rob Will
Oct 20 Steve Moody Will Be Murdered In Three Days (written
9-16-09) & Steve Moody’s Murder (written 9-13-09)
by Rob Will
Oct 19 Perry uses clemency sparingly on death row
Oct 19 Review death penalty law, ex-governor urges
Oct 18 Todd Willingham's Defense Lawyer Embarrasses Texas
Justice System on National TV; Juror Has Doubts
Oct 18 Never Thought to Read (written: 8-8-09) by Rob Will
Oct 18 Another DNA Exoneration (written 8-14-09) by Rob Will
Oct 16 The Troy Davis Supreme Court Ruling (writen 8-22-09)
by Rob Will
Oct 15 Texas Moratorium Network's message. Update on Tod
Willingham and the 10th March to Abolish the Death
Penalty
Oct 15 A Lifestyle of Action (written 8-3-09) by Rob Will
Oct 13 Message from Reg Blanton
Oct 13 Sonia Sotomayor (written 8/11-12/09) by Rob Will
Oct 12 Innocent Until Proven Dead Carter Pagel, a CEDP
member documents the long list of injustices suffered
by Reginald Blanton.
Oct 12 Department of Justice Condemns Harris County Jail
(written 8-19-09) by Rob Will
Oct 12 Perry's office quiet on expert's arson report
Oct 12 Europeans press the US to end the death penalty
Oct 11 Noise Pollution (written 8-6-09) by Rob Will
Oct 10 Statement for October 10th Rally in San Antonio, TX
by Reginald Blanton
Oct 10 EU says Texas, Nation Should End Executions
Oct 10 Relative Definition of Torture (written 8-15-09)
by Rob Will
Oct 08 Smaller Than An Animal's Cage (written 7-23-09) by
Rob Will
Oct 07 What is the Matter With Texas DAs? (Written 8-17-09)
by Rob Will
Oct 07 Courts examine Ohio's lethal-injection procedures
Governor issues 5-month reprieves
Oct 06 Reginald Blanton Received An Execution Date & Reg’s
Execution Date Only Two Months Away (Date written:
7-24-09 and 8-25-09 respectively ) by Rob Will
Oct 06 Visit Robert Will's new blog Live from Death Row
Oct 03 Resolution asks Council to eliminate death penalty &
Oct 02 8.30.09 by Kenneth Foster
Oct 02 Shake-up in Texas execution probe draws criticism,
Oct 01 Perry Removes 3 From Wrongful Execution Panel
Sep 28 Watch Reginald Blanton's mother, Anna Terrell
delivering a powerful plea for the life of her son at
a rally at the Texas Capitol on Sept 26, 2009.
Sep 21 Statement for August 17th rally in San Antonio TX
by Reg Blanton
Sep 21 8.30.09 Journal Update by Kenneth Foster
Sep 21 Governor Rick Perry defends execution of Corsicana
man some experts say was innocent
Sep 21 Chronology of A Failed Execution
Sep 18 Ohio Inmate Traumatized after Failed Execution and
Second-try Execution is 'cruel,' suit to say
Sep 16 Urge Gov. Perry to halt Reg Blanton's Execution
Sep 13 Urge Gov. Perry to Acknowledge that Todd Willingham
Sep 11 Another Reason to Abolish the Death Penalty from
Worker's World
Sep 04 Ex-Texas death row inmate freed
Sep 02 Texas Justice: Where Wrongful Convictions are the
norm by Desiree Evans
Aug 26 Interview with Reginald Blanton by Chris Young
Aug 16 My Brother Reginald Blanton by Chris Young
Aug 14 Join the 10th Annual March to Stop Executions! Open
letter from Dalia Perez
Aug 13 "I'm tired of being imprisoned in a system that's
devaluated, and struggling to survive under the cruel
and unusual punishment of an unjust institution..."
Aug 6 New Message from Reginald Blanton
Aug 5 Interview with Sandie and with Chris Young by
Christopher Young
July 29 Death Salivates by Reg Blanton and Reginald Blanton
and the Kangaroo Court by Dee
July 19 Austin's CEDP condemns the execution date recently
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